XeroxCool
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- Comment on What's Happened Since Time Dropped Its Paywall 1 Year Ago 1 day ago:
Do you know what halving means? It’s not a stock split and it’s not a value halving.
- Comment on How did we switched from "Dinosaur are giant lizards" to "Dinosaur are giant birds" 3 days ago:
Was that the Urahraptor? Discovered in 1993, estimated 5-6ft tall and 16-20ft long according to wiki
- Comment on Disable windows updates 1 week ago:
Would plugging a drive with an OS on it into a running computer just show a list of files like normal?
- Comment on it is kinda crazy "fuck this shit" hasn't become a common acronym yet 1 week ago:
Fuck The System
- Comment on 4ish years ago when I bought a house I was convinced not to get a house inspection, would it be crazy to get one now just to make sure it's all good? 5 weeks ago:
As I understand it, about 20 years ago, my [US] state started requiring all new basement work (including additions) to have radon piping provisions, but they didn’t have to be connected.
- Comment on Does color change how hot a laser can get something? 1 month ago:
Eh, I think it’s helpful to point that out. If someone hit a dead end researching lasers, not making it out of the visible spectrum, that could explain why. Maybe they missed the line stating where laser ends, maybe the article assumed the reader would know that already.
- Comment on Windows 11 just isn't enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling 1 month ago:
I beleive a large issue, and I say this as an old man yelling at kids on my lawn, is the difficulty in learning new systems. Most of those bad ones largely changed how to navigate a pc. Most of the good ones were smaller leaps from the prior bad one. So yes, I’m sure that also means the devs had more time in the current style to smooth it out and fix newly broken features, but it also got people exposed to the new style. A huge problem with 8 was that it went to that tablet tile bullshit. 10 tries to be a tablet too, slightly less so, but now we’re all accepting it as normal. That’s my take, at least as a contributing factor. Whatever was normal in your 20s is the standard for the rest of your life.
I see it with cars. People in my cohort get mad at all the chimey nannies in modern cars, so they yearn for when cars weren’t so inundated with technology. Peak automotive design was 1985-2005. And yet, the adults when we grew up would complain those 90s cars are way too complicated with their electronic engine control models and emissions systems.
- Comment on Doesn't the need for a permit fundamentally contradict the US's ideals of free speech? 1 month ago:
… That’s exactly the point. Starting a discussion with people who’ve fundamentally misunderstood the right. People who think they can say anything and you aren’t allowed to be mad at them. People who think their right applies to private property and platforms.
- Comment on Doesn't the need for a permit fundamentally contradict the US's ideals of free speech? 1 month ago:
Yelling “fire” is just an easily visualized situation to start the discussion about how freedom of speech is not a universal freedom. It cracks open the door to the idea that there are many situations where you’re not free and that it’s not even about your ability to scream or be heard, it’s about government persecution limitations.
- Comment on Webb captures iconic Horsehead Nebula in unprecedented detail 1 month ago:
Existential crisis about how every narrow image shows 100,000x the amount of matter and bodies that I already can’t conceptualize from just our own galaxy
- Comment on Webb captures iconic Horsehead Nebula in unprecedented detail 1 month ago:
The number of galaxies present in JWST images always makes me want to puke
- Comment on Remember when the body washes contained literal micro plastics and were advertised as such? 1 month ago:
I thought Axe Snakepeel was so cool. I thought it had titanium beads. Turns out, the beads were plastic and titanium (dioxide) was normal soap stuff (though I think just to artificially make the soap opaque). It disappeared before I was aware
- Comment on Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time? 1 month ago:
I’ve had SwiftKey for a long time as well. My biggest gripe is it likes to change tense/pluralization of words randomly, it seems, as well as dropping post-apostrophe letters. It entirely flips the meaning from “can’t” to “can” at the worst, while also makes me seem not so smart when I say “there are 133 word in this comments”.
- Comment on Promoted on TikTok, ‘No Thanks’ boycott app targets products tied to Israel 1 month ago:
2.2 for me now. Clicking the ratings it warns me “ratings are based on recent reviews from your region by people using similar devices to you”
- Comment on Promoted on TikTok, ‘No Thanks’ boycott app targets products tied to Israel 1 month ago:
Maybe it’s rapidly changing. A screenshot from 3 hours prior to your comment shows it at 4.3
- Comment on Why do cameras call it "Macro Lens" if it zooms in and is used to capture tiny objects? Shouldn't it be "Micro Lens"? 1 month ago:
Cropped by way of a smaller sensor, but magnified if you compare a “full frame sensor” camera and a “crop sensor” camera with identical pixel counts. A penny will have a penny-sized projection on the sensor, but the image from the crop sensor will have ~40% more pixels of the penny.
- Comment on How should I link to music so that anyone can open it? 2 months ago:
Corrected a type that flips the meaning, though I’m guessing people identified it. “impermanent”
- Comment on How should I link to music so that anyone can open it? 2 months ago:
The I permanent nature of YouTube and other host sites, such as photo bucket and forum reformats, has drastically changed how I comment. I try to type all the pertinent details instead of dropping a link alone, hoping to future-proof the info by giving readers the info required to use a search engine to find it if the link breaks
- Comment on Fisker now expects to go bankrupt within 30 days 2 months ago:
Sounds like the same page as injected C-levels pushing Precision-Scheduled-Railroading at railroads with a massive boost to share value via slashed labor pools. 2 years later when labor can’t support operations and the company gets rekt, the new C-levels eject with a shiny parachute and dumped stocks.
- Comment on Tesla Cybertruck turns into world's most expensive brick after car wash 2 months ago:
I’m amused that liberals bash Tesla for being a conservative virtue signaler by extension of Elon, while conservatives bash Tesla for being an EV virtue signal for liberal tree huggers.
- Comment on Netflix Doc ‘What Jennifer Did’ Uses AI Images to Create False Historical Record 2 months ago:
They might not be mistaken for the actual people in the case, but they certainly get beleived as 100% accurate reenactments.
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 2 months ago:
I would agree with this if components were sold by volume as well. I don’t really bake, but the only thing I can recall showing a volume was shredded cheese. And even still, it’s always about X cups. Otherwise, I’m buying a premixed box and doing what the label tells me to do. Sure, I’m happy to not get fleeced with shrinkflation putting fluffy shredded cheese in a 2 cup bag, but it’s still a bit of a mismatch
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 2 months ago:
- 8 fluid ounces, not to further confuse Europeans by thinking our cup is an adaptable unit of measure based on 8 weight ounces of a given product.
- Comment on Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt 2 months ago:
“however” lol specifically what it was told not to say
- Comment on Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt 2 months ago:
“it can’t be minimized, however I did set some minimizing kindling above”
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Autocorrected from “the scroller”, my bad for not catching it
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Does your state block the site or does the site block your state so as to not comply with the ID requirement? If it’s the opposite of what you said, then the scrolled isn’t in your state most likely, so the site doesn’t block access. The scrolled then forwards it to you… Which might put the scrolled in jeopardy for not complying.
- Comment on Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt 2 months ago:
I don’t know what this is, so I just read it. OK… OK… Fine… What? what? Oh no. What a ride. Still don’t know what it’s purpose is, but damn.
- Comment on Total Solar Eclipse - From 30 Years to 3 Minutes & 20 Seconds 2 months ago:
To potentially save you the confusion I had, the next popular one in North America will really be 2045. They’re both in August, but the 2044 TSE is a relatively short, northerly event with totality ending in Montana at sunset. Meanwhile, 2045 is more akin to the 2017 path, passing from California to Florida.
- Comment on Total Solar Eclipse - From 30 Years to 3 Minutes & 20 Seconds 2 months ago:
I have such mixed feelings about all the time I spent with my cameras during the event. By time I realized I had no practice with the camera and eq mount for daytime use, it was cloudy the whole time at home. Totality is not something you can reasonably practice anyway. So yeah, I have a few cool totality pictures with varying detail and a couple hundred showing the partial phases… But for what? They’re not as good as many other amateurs, let alone professionals. If there was ever a time to deal with the hassle of raw photos, it was then. Part of why I gave up on most astrophotography is because the best I could possibly do is simply match it to scientific equipment. It’s cool to do it, but there’s no personalization. Instead, I look more for nightscapes or wide angle really detailed starfields. I’m still conflicted as to whether or not I experienced it properly. I got to show the pics to some people passing by after, assuming I was the go-to person for info on what they experienced, something I love about night time astronomy, but those aren’t such time-limited events.
I’ll probably revel in memories whenever I actually flip through the pictures. But, personally, I don’t think it was worth spending so much of my time getting pictures of a black hole in a black background rather than just letting my mark 1 eyeballs observe the hole in the blue-fade skies.
However, the one piece I absolutely would bring every single time again is binoculars. Maybe that’s why I feel like I didn’t see the eclipse. The view in my 10x binos was so incredibly detailed, the memory matches the stacked and tweaked pictures. I could see more than just the big laser-don’t flare on the bottom, I saw at least 3. Just unreal, no sight in my life before could explain it. A cartoonishly large corona with a black hole in a black background. Maybe I just couldn’t comprehend.
I’m glad you had the emotional experience I was expecting to have.